ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+10

Topic: Shapes

Common Core Standards: RL.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RF.K.1d---Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet. RF.K.3a---Demonstrate a basic knowledge of one-to-one correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. W.K.2---Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing and supply some information about the topic. SL.K.2--- Confirm understanding of text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details an requesting clarification if something is not understood. L.K.1a---Print many upper and lowercase letters. L.K.2c---Write la letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).

Suggested Student Objectives:
 * Review words that begin with short /a/, /t/, /k/ and /p/.
 * Review sounds for a, t, c and p.
 * Write letters Aa, Tt, Cc, and Pp.
 * Build background for "Mouse Shapes."
 * Identify story structure.
 * Classify and categorize shapes.

Suggested Additional Readings: Shapes With Ocean Animals by Melanie Witt Bear in a Square by Stella Blackstone Circle Dogs by Kevin Henkes Eye Spy Shapes by Debbie MacKinnon So Many Circles, So Many Squares by Tana Hoban Cubes, Cones, Cylinders and Spheres by Tana Hoban The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Resource Links: [|Shape Game] [|Math Worksheets] [|Granny's Shape Store Worksheet] [|Building with Shapes] [|Max's Shape Adventure]

Activities: 1. Shape Scavenger Hunt: Take a walk with children inside or outside and have a shape scavenger hunt. Have children see how many things they can find that are a particular shape, such as a circle (plates, clocks, coins, lids, pots and pans, etc.). Or keep a tally and see which shape children spot the most often.

2. Shape Books: Have children look for pictures in magazines that are particular shapes, such as a circle, a square, a triangle, etc. Have them cut out the pictures and glue them onto a page with that shape drawn on it. After children have found and glued all the shapes, bind them together into “__’s Shape Book.”__

__3. Shape Mobile__ Materials: __1 Clothes Hanger __ __Yarn __ __Scissors__ __Heavy Paper__ __Glue__ __Crayons or Colored Markers__

Instructions:__ Glue pages of shapes to heavier paper. Color the shapes. Cut out the shapes with scissors. Punch a hole at the top of each shape. Tie yarn to top of the shapes. Tie the other end of the yarn to the hanger.

4. 3D Shape Sort: [|3D Shape Sort]

5. Shape Puppet Students created hand puppets made from legal envelopes and cut pieces of paper. They reviewed the names of geometric shapes and used those shapes to create the puppets. At the end they added detail to their puppet with crayon or marker.

Assessments: Unit 2 Benchmark Assessment.

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